April 16th, 2026 Local News
Jefferson Co., Mo. (KFMO) - A Jennings man will spend additional time behind bars after being sentenced in federal court for a series of gun store burglaries in Jefferson County.
A Jennings man has been sentenced to federal prison for stealing firearms from two Jefferson County businesses in 2020.
U.S. District Judge Cristian M. Stevens on Monday sentenced 25-year-old Jynell Edward Luss to 46 months in prison. The judge also ordered Luss to pay $3,875 in restitution. The sentence will run consecutive to a 20-year prison term Luss is already serving for a second-degree murder conviction in an unrelated case.
According to court documents, Luss and his co-defendant, 24-year-old Carnell Robinson, both of Jennings, carried out two overnight burglaries in July of 2020. Around 1 a.m. on July 12, the pair broke into a pawn shop in Imperial, Missouri, stealing four AR-style rifles, a shotgun, ammunition, and jewelry.
Roughly 24 hours later, again around 1 a.m., the two targeted a gun store near Arnold, Missouri, where they stole two additional rifles and multiple boxes of ammunition.
Luss pleaded guilty in January to one count of theft of firearms from a federal firearms licensee. In a separate case, he admitted in St. Louis Circuit Court in 2025 to fatally shooting a man just five days after the second burglary and stealing the victim’s gun.
Robinson also pleaded guilty to the federal firearm theft charge in November 2023. He was sentenced in February 2024 to 13 months in federal prison. In addition, he pleaded guilty in Jefferson County Circuit Court to burglary and stealing, receiving an eight-year state prison sentence.